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Hezbollah Car Bomb Kills 3 Pro-israeli Militiamen

April 30, 2000|By From Tribune News Services.

BEIRUT, LEBANON — A guerrilla car bomb near an outpost of a pro-Israeli militia killed three militiamen in an attack that heightened tension in the run-up to Israel's planned withdrawal from southern Lebanon.

Early Saturday, the pro-Israeli militia, the South Lebanon Army, said corpses of the two militiamen had been recovered from the ruins and that a third soldier also was killed. Four others were wounded, three seriously.

The blast was one of several attacks by the Hezbollah guerrillas on military positions in the Israeli-occupied zone, Lebanese and Israeli security officials said.

The upsurge in hostilities came after a week of diplomatic efforts aimed at smoothing Israel's expected July 7 troop withdrawal from south Lebanon.